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Some people view their pets like family members. Some people have no other family members except for their pets. Some pets love and care more for people than some family members do.
I myself wouldn't go to a service to have my pet blessed because I can ask God myself to bless my pet. But I'm no final authority. God knows people's hearts and for the life of me I can't see Jesus ever condemning somebody who loves their pet so much and is so thankful for them that they'd want them blessed by God.
I myself wouldn't go to a service to have my pet blessed because I can ask God myself to bless my pet. But I'm no final authority. God knows people's hearts and for the life of me I can't see Jesus ever condemning somebody who loves their pet so much and is so thankful for them that they'd want them blessed by God.
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Wow! The poor guy doing the blessing would want a chair if we had brought him the animals we had growing up. In our household (most were one brother's animals) we had a dog, 5-32 rabbits (supposed to be five but two females had babies the same day lol), up to 10 snakes, horn toads, chameleons, three-striped and five-striped skinks, newts, salamanders, toads, a caiman, bullfrogs (I spent 15 minutes once chasing the caiman around the turtle pen with a broom, until he dropped the frog legs sticking out of his mouth. Yes, the bullfrog hopped away lol), gerbils and mice (the snakes and caiman had to eat something), an iguana, 3-7 paint turtles, 200 box turtles, an aquarium full of guppies, and one or two stray reptiles that came and went for whatever reason. And, yes, my brother knew the names of each of his pets. (No one else did -- except for Linda the box turtle who saw her own babies, Patches the stud muffin rabbit that had his way with the ladies, and the mixed up rabbit dog who belonged to all of us -- but he did. lol)
And, yes. I know all those pets can fit into a station wagon with a small trailer hitched to the back, because they did once. lol
And, yes. I know all those pets can fit into a station wagon with a small trailer hitched to the back, because they did once. lol
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Some people view their pets like family members. Some people have no other family members except for their pets. Some pets love and care more for people than some family members do.
I myself wouldn't go to a service to have my pet blessed because I can ask God myself to bless my pet. But I'm no final authority. God knows people's hearts and for the life of me I can't see Jesus ever condemning somebody who loves their pet so much and is so thankful for them that they'd want them blessed by God.
I myself wouldn't go to a service to have my pet blessed because I can ask God myself to bless my pet. But I'm no final authority. God knows people's hearts and for the life of me I can't see Jesus ever condemning somebody who loves their pet so much and is so thankful for them that they'd want them blessed by God.
I'd say yes. He even knew the colt before it was even begat and declared it so.
Zechariah 9:9
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Zechariah 9:9
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
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I'm amazed. If churches actually do this, maybe we can have a service to bless the kids in the streets too? Call them all kids who are willing to be blessed, dedicate a service for just blessing these poor souls and ask the preacher/church leader to bless them individually. Or the homeless, or the disabled.
In all sincerity, nothing against blessing pets, it just amazes me that there's a dying world out there and if we have time for this, surely we can spare more time with the humans that need saving.
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:26
In all sincerity, nothing against blessing pets, it just amazes me that there's a dying world out there and if we have time for this, surely we can spare more time with the humans that need saving.
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:26